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Originally Posted by TheOtherGuy
I take it you mean it is very bad if our httpdocs folder is set to 777? I'm sorry I don't know more about this kinda stuff, so thanks for any help you can give us!
[EDIT] I chmod(ed) it to 755
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If the root directory of your website is chmod'd to 777, and you are hosting your website on a shared server, it's possible that you could be compromising the security of your website. This could allow changes to be made to the root directory of your website, which is bad. So changing the permissions to 755 for the root directory is a good idea.
Basically, when a folder is chmod'd to 777, it means anyone can read, execute, or write files to that directory. The order of the numbers means [Owner] [Group] [User], each with a value from 0-7. Since we certainly don't want anonymous users being able to write files to the directory, we change the Group and User values to a lower value, which allow them to read and execute, but not write to that directory. Hence, we get a more secure file permissions value of 755.